Quotable Quotes
Aug. 14th, 2007 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Venue: Writing Centre.
What we're doing? Well, I'm chilling, but Mike is working on a grammar module for ESL students (artcles and nouns, to be precise). Ashley's working on a presentation.
Mike: Did you guys know that cheese is a non-countable noun?
Me: Well, yeah. You can't count cheese. Unless you're talking about, like, different types of cheeses, then you can make a non-countable into a countable noun.
Mike: I don't know why, but it just never occurred to me... Cheese is a non-countable noun!
Ashley: Sorry, what's a non-countable noun?
Me: Basically stuff you can't count.
Mike: Yeah, non-countable nouns are things that're bigger than you... sadness... faith... cheese...
Probably one of those things you just had to be there for, I guess.
What we're doing? Well, I'm chilling, but Mike is working on a grammar module for ESL students (artcles and nouns, to be precise). Ashley's working on a presentation.
Mike: Did you guys know that cheese is a non-countable noun?
Me: Well, yeah. You can't count cheese. Unless you're talking about, like, different types of cheeses, then you can make a non-countable into a countable noun.
Mike: I don't know why, but it just never occurred to me... Cheese is a non-countable noun!
Ashley: Sorry, what's a non-countable noun?
Me: Basically stuff you can't count.
Mike: Yeah, non-countable nouns are things that're bigger than you... sadness... faith... cheese...
Probably one of those things you just had to be there for, I guess.
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Date: 2007-08-14 04:17 am (UTC)notice how I used sadness, faith, and cheese in one sentence... I lead a sad sad life... *hangs head in shame*
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Date: 2007-08-14 11:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-14 01:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-14 03:43 pm (UTC)Merhaps you were using a linguistic derivation from Arabic.
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Date: 2007-08-14 03:56 pm (UTC)Good thing the father is coming in October he can bring it with him.
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Date: 2007-08-14 04:57 pm (UTC)Sometimes the way I speak and the way I write stuff is a bit weird to the modern eye, because I grew up reading all sorts of old medieval texts.
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Date: 2007-08-14 07:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-14 03:20 pm (UTC)/me wonders...
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Date: 2007-08-14 06:28 pm (UTC)